Saturday, August 11, 2012

Romney’s Choice

The GOP-Tea Party ticket is set. With the Ryan pick, any supposed distinction
between the GOP and the Tea Party falls away. Given recent results in Senate
primaries and, now, the successful ultra-right pressure on Romney to choose
Ryan, the Tea Party is in control. The GOP belongs to the Koch brothers,
Adelson and the super-pacs of Karl Rove and assorted extremist reactionary
multibillionaires. They decided to throw down the gauntlet, to avoid ambiguity
that might attach to a choice less provocative than Ryan.

The issues are even more defined now than they seemed before
the GOP ticket was settled, but those who want to see the GOP defeated in
November should hold back the cheers. In the present economic and political
environment, it is unwise to view the Romney-Ryan ticket primarily as a move of
rightwing desperation. It is an audacious high-stake bid to capture full and
unequivocal control of the government and the direction of the country.

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About Me

Leon Wofsy is Professor Emeritus of Molecular and Cell Biology / Immunology at the University of California at Berkeley. His career in science and academia began when he was almost forty years old. Earlier, for more than fifteen years, he was a leader of Marxist youth organizations. That experience began during the student upheavals at New York’s City College (CCNY) in the late 1930s, and encompassed the time of McCarthyism in the 1950s. He became a professor at UC Berkeley in 1964 just as the Free Speech Movement was about to erupt. He is the author of many scientific papers and articles on social issues. He edited a book on the Cold War, Before the Point of No Return (Monthly Review Press, 1986). His memoir, Looking for the Future (IW Rose Press, 1995) is available online in the Free Speech Movement Archives, Book Collection, UC Bancroft Library.